A short novel relating the story of nine months in the life of an eleven year old orphan boy caught begging on Newport streets in 1870, and sent to receive instructions in a naval school from a kind schoolteacher and a cruel boatswain, for 9-12 year-old readers.

A short novel relating the story of nine months in the life of an eleven year old orphan boy caught begging on Newport streets in 1870, and sent to receive instructions in a naval school from a kind schoolteacher and a cruel boatswain, for 9-12 year-old readers.